Cardio your watch or another connected wearable records counts toward your training load, alongside your lifting. Cardio you log by hand in Kenso's Cardio logger is saved to your history and stats, but it doesn't currently move the Effort dial or your training load.
Where to find it
Home's Effort dial shows today's training load as a percentage of your typical training day; tap it to open a breakdown of everything feeding that number. Your training load over time also appears on the Performance page.
Why hand-logged cardio doesn't count yet
The Effort dial and training load are built from your lifting sets and from sessions with heart-rate data attached by a connected watch or wearable. A cardio session you time or type into Kenso yourself has neither, so it shows up in your history, but not in that number. Typing in a heart rate when you log cardio manually doesn't change this; that field is saved for your own record only.
If you want cardio to count
Wear a connected watch or wearable during cardio and let it record the session so it syncs into Kenso automatically. See Cardio workouts from Apple Health and other sources. A synced cardio workout does feed your training load.
If you use Whoop
If you have Whoop connected, its day strain is also considered alongside what Kenso has recorded: whichever is higher sets your Effort number for the day, and the breakdown notes which one won.
Good to know
- Strength sessions count toward training load from your logged sets alone, even without a watch. Cardio needs the watch-recorded data specifically.
- Your typical training day, the baseline Effort compares against, is based on your own recent history, so it adjusts as your training changes over time.